Windows 11 Is Fixing a Big Problem With Widgets
Microsoft brought back widgets with the release of Windows 11, which are now in a panel accessible from the taskbar. The company isn’t done with widgets, though, and a significant fix is on the way.
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When we Androidians think about widgets, we tend to think about our humble home screens.
Makes sense, right? That’s where widgets have traditionally existed here in the land o’ Android (with one short-lived exception, anyway, but Google’s convinced we’ve forgotten about that).
Hold the phone, though — ’cause it turns out there’s a whole other way to interact with widgets on your favorite Googley gadget. Few mere mortals are aware, but at some point, Google quietly started offering the ability to call up Android widgets on demand, as you need ’em, via a simple spoken command.
One of the major changes with today’s launch of iOS 16 is the ability for users’ to now personalize their Lock Screen with widgets, in addition to adding widgets to the Home Screen, which had rolled out in iOS 14. However, outside of built-in widgets for Apple’s first-party apps like Calendar, Clock, Fitness, Home, News, […]
25+ iOS 16-ready apps featuring Lock Screen widgets you can try today by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. Global app spending reached $65 billion in the first half of 2022, up only slightly from the $64.4 billion during the same period in 2021, as hypergrowth fueled by […]
This Week in Apps: Apple’s event brings a ‘dynamic Island,’ new widgets and iOS 16 by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch